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Portrait Photography | Expressive Portraiture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Child and His Penguin | Langkawi This is among my favorite picture taken at Langkawi, I know it’s not a picture about Langkawi, I can easily take this picture at home, no need to fly hundreds of kilometers just to get this close up shot. There is a story attached to this picture, there is a story to tell, I took this picture at Tengah Beach Langkawi and then again you can’t see the beach here. We bought the cuddly little penguin at Langkawi Underwater World after we finish the tour, I mean visiting the underwater world. My son like to watch Madagascar the…
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Portrait Photography | Environmental Portrait
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Looking for Books | Kinokuniya Suria KLCC An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography. By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features. It is also thought that by photographing a person in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive…
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A Walk To Remember | Black Sand Beach Langkawi
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Black Sand Beach Jetty Langkawi A little bit history about Black Sand Beach Langkawi : The Black Sand Beach Of Langkawi is a major tourist attraction of the region. Visitors are awed by the black sands and the legends behind this occurrence are highly interesting as well. It narrates of a mythical giant eagle, Garuda, who kidnaps a Chinese princess with an intention to seek her favors. The princess’ heart however laid with her fiancé, a roman prince. The prince waged a deadly war against Garuda and sought out his beloved at Langkawi. It is believed that the remnants of this war can be seen…
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Location Portraiture
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Langkawi Island | Royal Langkawi Yacht Club “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel, it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind”. ( Dave Barry ) Portraiture is not about head and shoulder, sometimes we need to show our subject with it’s surroundings, where the picture is taken and what was the surroundings look like. If we travel as a tourist try to find a great background and is possible a landmark about that particular place, your subject may look small in the frame, that’s ok because the main purpose is to show where the…
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Child Photography | Don’t Worry, Be Happy
© 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Time To Play | Pantai Tengah | Langkawi Island © 2010 Wazari Wazir | A Time To Play | Pantai Tengah | Langkawi Island “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” | Pablo Picasso A child need not to worry so much, they just keep on playing and always exploring new things around him, always curious to know something, always curious about life about new environment, about new toys. Most of the times they get what they want, they are very persistent to get what they want. I know that not all children’s in this…